passed over into an attitude that faith could, in fact, be reduced simply to its core principles of Scripture and Christ. What had earlier been the surrounding beliefs became functionally irrelevant. In hindsight, it is now rather clear that the toleration of diversity slowly became an indifference toward much of the fabric of belief that makes up Christian faith. It was not long before this indifference then made its way into the central, core beliefs as well. In the 1970s and 1980s, on every side